Famous Quotes About - war

  • A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon. ... Napoleon Bonaparte {view}
  • A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war. ... Herbert V. Prochnow {view}
  • All war is deception. ... Sun Tzu {view}
  • All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers. ... Francois Fenelon {view}
  • An unjust peace is better than a just war. ... Marcus Tullius Cicero {view}
  • Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. ... Dwight D. Eisenhower {view}
  • He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice. ... Albert Einstein {view}
  • I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy. ... William Westmoreland {view}
  • I have never advocated war except as a means of peace. ... Ulysses S. Grant {view}
  • I have not yet begun to fight! ... John Paul Jones {view}
  • I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. ... John Adams {view}
  • I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in. ... George McGovern {view}
  • If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how? ... Joan Baez {view}
  • If we don't end war, war will end us. ... H. G. Wells {view}
  • In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason. ... Ernest Hemingway {view}
  • In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield. ... Douglas MacArthur {view}
  • In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons. ... Herodotus {view}
  • It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war. ... Lester B. Pearson {view}
  • It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. ... Voltaire {view}
  • It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it. ... Robert E. Lee {view}
  • It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash. ... Fred Woodworth {view}
  • It was definitely a part of our life. I mean, my mom had both her brothers and her fiancee in Vietnam at the same time, so it wasn't just my dad's story, it was my mom's story too. And we definitely grew up listening to the stories. ... Vanessa Kerry {view}
  • John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war. ... Isaac Asimov {view}
  • Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder. ... Percy Bysshe Shelley {view}
  • Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind. ... John F. Kennedy {view}
  • Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. ... Winston Churchill {view}
  • Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. ... Ernest Hemingway {view}
  • No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time. ... Henry A. Kissinger {view}
  • One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it. ... Pedro Calderon de la Barca {view}
  • One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam. ... Martin Luther King, Jr. {view}
  • Only the dead have seen the end of the war. ... George Santayana {view}
  • Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living. ... Omar N. Bradley {view}
  • Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country. ... Bertrand Russell {view}
  • Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come. ... Carl Sandburg {view}
  • Sweat saves blood. ... Erwin Rommel {view}
  • Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head. ... Euripides {view}
  • The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution. ... John F. Kennedy {view}
  • The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy. ... Friedrich Nietzsche {view}
  • The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations. ... David Friedman {view}
  • The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation. ... George McGovern {view}
  • The first casualty when war comes is truth. ... Hiram Johnson {view}
  • The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars. ... William Westmoreland {view}
  • The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. ... George S. Patton {view}
  • The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully. ... Charles Evans Hughes {view}
  • The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. ... Albert Einstein {view}
  • The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war. ... William Tecumseh Sherman {view}
  • The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts. ... Omar N. Bradley {view}
  • There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others. ... Niccolo Machiavelli {view}
  • There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare. ... Sun Tzu {view}
  • There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it. ... Havelock Ellis {view}
  • There was never a good war, or a bad peace. ... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever. ... Thomas A. Edison {view}
  • To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization. ... George Orwell {view}
  • War does not determine who is right - only who is left. ... Bertrand Russell {view}
  • War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man. ... Napoleon Hill {view}
  • War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory. ... Albert Pike {view}
  • War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. ... John Stuart Mill {view}
  • War is hell. ... William Tecumseh Sherman {view}
  • War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus. ... Antoine de Saint-Exupery {view}